I wish Noteflight would...

The thing with all the input items

We all know of the thing that floats around when you edit the sheet music. It's the thing that has the quarter notes, the eight notes and of course dynamics and the tablature and everything else. I can't stand the fact that it moves around. It gets in my way when I'm trying to edit the sheet music. Wouldn't it be great if it stays like on the side of the editor? Like, maybe in the upper right hand corner or upper left hand corner? Just so it stays out of our way. Won't it be much easier?

This feature has been added!
To change modes of palette positioning in the Flash editor, go to the ‘View’ Menu and toggle the ‘Position Edit Palette Automatically’ option. When this option is checked, the palette will behave as it has before (following the user’s clicks). However, the unchecked version will keep the palette stationary and also makes it scroll with the page.
Also, the newer HTML5 Noteflight editor (which you can access from the View menu in the Flash version) has a fixed object palette that doesn’t move around.
Enjoy this new feature!

The newer HTML5 Noteflight editor (which you can access from the View menu in the Flash version) has a fixed object palette that doesn’t move around. Although this editor is still in beta and undergoing improvements, you may prefer the new palette design.

This is coming very soon! Soon you will be able to choose between an automatically positioned palette (the mode you have described), or one that moves only when the user drags it or scrolls the page. This is how the palette will work in the Flash Editor (and the browser will remember your choice for future sessions)
As described by Joe, the HTML 5 Editor will have a fixed editing palette.

The HTML version makes it a lot easier. The con is, when you are deep into a score, it likes to back up "changes" which means you may have highlighted one measure just so you could start from that area, but it reacts to it like it's a change and does this weird auto save thing which messes up the playing quite a bit too

I just started using noteflight and I'm enjoying it. However, one of the things I would like to be able to do is to put in a staff with a treble clef only....NO NOTES or RESTS. Just below the staff I would like to print the names of a particular key signature and then have my students write in the correct number of sharps or flats on the staff, without the clutter of rests. How can I do that with Noteflight? In other words, I want a staff and treble clef only.

I've never cursed at anything like I have that !@##@$ editing palette. It's never where I need it and it's always in the way.
In my browser I've never had to hunt for the address bar or the file button. They stay in one place for a reason. I've almost quit noteflight because that editing palette infuriates me.

It's actually called "The Editing Palette" :)
Obviously everyone understands what you refer to but I thought that it could be good to know the real name for future reference. If you, for example, need to explain where to find pedal notation it's much faster to write "the editing palette" than "the thing that floats around when you edit the sheet music. It's the thing that has the quarter notes, the eight notes and of course dynamics and the tablature and everything else". (It's a great explanation though, I'm not saying anything about that.)

Yes, if the floating thing stayed on the side of the screen (top, bottom, side - anywhere excpet the middle) then Noteflight would seem better "polished", thus allowing it to compete with other software out there that cost so much (more) money, thus making it preferred over the others so more people will use it.
That's what I think...

Oh, god, that floating thing is the bane of my existence! I hate it! It is especially bad when I am notating on my netbook, which has a smaller screen. It is always, always, always right on top of the exact measure that I am currently editing, so that I can't see it! I would even be happy if it still floated, but at least stayed the heck away from the measure that I'm trying to work on.

The best would be if I could toggle it to turn on and off (View Floating Thing on/off).